Effective Church Communications

Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and Biblical Inspiration to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission

Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and a Biblical Perspective to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. Our tools constantly change; our task doesn’t; we can help.

Father’s Day Resources, list and links to help you celebrate the men of your church and involve them in ministries

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Men's Ministry Resources
Father's Day is a great time to celebrate the men of your church and help them grow spiritually. Here are resources to help do that.

Father's Day is a fantastic opportunity to connect with the men of your church, celebrate them, and help them get involved in ministries. Below is a summary listing of the articles and resources that will help you do that! The list has more than links to graphics you can download and personalize, but articles and strategy that will help you make the most of the communication pieces.

If you'd like to see a preview of all the sets and download links of all these publications for Father's Day, they are at the TEMPLATES page for Father's Day. CLICK HERE to go to the Templates page.

Below are samples of the various publications included, but each entry has a variety of the various kinds of publications. ALL the work is done for you—images and type selected, layout done—you can personalize if you want, or print a finished PDF.

Gallery of samples of Father's Day Publications

Below these samples are links to the full articles of each type with many more options.

Each of the articles below of publications also have galleries of the publications and download links. Be sure to check out the first ones of the slides and video—they are great ways to welcome father's on this special day.

Father's Day Power Point Slides and Videos of inspiring quotes and verses: https://wp.me/pDky9-7ly

Welcome slides for Father's Day: https://wp.me/pDky9-7mc

Father's Day Invitations: http://wp.me/pDky9-7fM

Father's Day Bulletin Inserts: http://wp.me/pDky9-7gG

Father's Day Men's Ministry Connection Cards: http://wp.me/pDky9-7gX

Father's Day Men's Ministry Business Cards: http://wp.me/pDky9-7ho

Father's Day Men's Be A Better Man Challenge: http://wp.me/pDky9-7hk

Father's Day Solutions to Porn Card, FREE to all: http://wp.me/pDky9-7hr

Father's Day Social Media Images, FREE to all: http://wp.me/pDky9-7gh

Dos and Don'ts to a successful launch of a men's ministry: http://wp.me/pDky9-7hQ

Make STRATEGIC use of Father's Day to grow your church--by targeting YOUNGER Dads: https://wp.me/pDky9-6ec

PowerPoint Slides for Backpack Ministry to remind and motivate your congregation

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Backpack Ministry PowerPoint Slides
Backpack ministries are essential to help kids be ready for school. These PowerPoint images will remind your congregation to participate.

People usually want to give to worthy causes and making sure that children have adequate supplies for school is a very important one.

However, we all need reminders to do what we ought to do and these FREE PowerPoint Slide images will help you remind your congregation.

Here is a gallery of the images. Just click on the ZIP file below them to download them. 

Click the following link to download the ZIP file of the images: Backpack Ministry PowerPoint Images

Production note: when you place the image into your PowerPoint file, it will be a background and is not editable. You can add your own text over it.

Additional Resources for Backpack Ministry:

***These are all FREE! Please share with other church communicators!

Instagram Images for Backpack Ministry to remind and motivate your congregation to give: https://wp.me/pDky9-898

Bulletin inserts and Flyers for Fall Back-Pack ministries: https://wp.me/pDky9-7rX

My personal motivation for Backpack ministry—my memories and prayers about crayons and little kids in need: https://wp.me/pDky9-pL

 

Bulletin inserts and Flyers for Fall Backpack ministries

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Back pack supplies ministry
Getting supplies for children who can't afford them is a wonderful ministry. Help your church do that!

One of the best ministries at this time of year is for churches to assemble backpacks for kids that need them.

Following is an assortment of designs from past years that you can freely reproduce. You can use them as is or modify them to fit your church or community.

At the end of the article are two NEW sets of PowerPoint and Instagram images you can use to remind people and promote your backpack ministry.

You can click on the link below the images to download the ZIP file that has:

  1. PDFs of all the designs
  2. Editable MS Publisher files
  3. The design above in MS Word file
  4. Text for the flyers

****One more important note:

At the same time you recommend that your congregation buy supplies for backpacks, remind them that this is a great time to stock up on great buys on school supplies for Christmas shoe box ministries!

Gallery of the flyers/bulletin inserts

To download the ZIP file containing all the materials above, click the following link: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Backpack-Ministry-Bulletin-Inserts.zip

For additional materials to promote Backpack Ministries:

PowerPoint Slides for Backpack Ministry to remind and motivate your congregation to give: https://wp.me/pDky9-88N

Instagram Images for Backpack Ministry to remind and motivate your congregation to give: https://wp.me/pDky9-898

The job of church communicators–to incarnate ministry vision, illustrated with Backpack Ministry video

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Backpack Ministry Video
We can make a ministry come alive with our communications.
List of materials for backpack ministry.
An image of the list of supplies needed for the backpacks.

The communication project started out as an email plea for help. Our mission committee was working with two orphanages in Mexico and they wanted to provide backpacks for the children there. I got a frantic email for help--the committee knew they needed a way tell the congregation about it, but they didn't know where to start.
They gave me lists like the one here and a jump drive of photos.

Below is the video I created for them. I also did up other materials, (detailed brochure, posters, website materials), but the point of what I wanted to share here is that, as I thought about it, I realized this project illustrated one of the most important things we do as church communicators--we incarnate ministry vision.

To incarnate literally means to put into bodily form, to put on flesh and bones. Jesus did that when he came to earth. Peter worshipped an invisible, holy God as a child. When Jesus became incarnate, Peter could go fishing with him. He could hug him, laugh with him, go to a party with him. God became real to Peter in the incarnate Jesus.

So many of the ministry dreams and visions of the leadership in our church are wonderful, godly visions of what God can do. But until we put them into tangible form in our communications, they remain the intangible stuff of vision. When we create a video like the project--people see the children; they see the need; they know what to do. Lord willing, we touch hearts and motivate minds to action. We incarnate. We put flesh on the vision of the ministry to our people.

Often when we do this, not only do we help our congregation get involved with the ministry, but it touches us also. I became very involved in this project and became a back-pack making maniac for a few weeks. Since then I've been involved in other Backpack projects and below the video are some flyers/bulletin inserts and social media you can use to advertise back-pack ministries at your church.

Resources to help your church share backpack ministries

Note: I used animoto.com to create the video above. It is very easy to add pictures and text to the program and then a video comes out! Really, it is that easy.

Other materials for Backpack Ministries:

PowerPoint Slides for Backpack Ministry to remind and motivate your congregation to give: https://wp.me/pDky9-88N

Instagram Images for Backpack Ministry to remind and motivate your congregation to give: https://wp.me/pDky9-898

Bulletin inserts and Flyers for Fall Back-Pack ministries: https://wp.me/pDky9-7rX

My personal motivation for Backpack ministry—my memories and prayers about crayons and little kids in need: https://wp.me/pDky9-pL

My personal motivation for Backpack ministry—my memories and prayers about crayons and little kids in need

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Contribute to back to school ministries.
Few things were more exciting to me as a child than a new box of crayons--and we have opportunities to share that joy with needy kids.

Remember the smell when you opened a new box of crayons? Waxy and warm with a bit of paper mixed in.

Remember what it was like to see all those new crayons? Sometimes there were new colors. The metallic crayons seemed magical. I almost hated to use them, to turn the neat, sharp points into smushy stubs.  But there was always another year to look forward to, another start of school and a new box of crayons.

Crayons were just the start—pencils, notebooks with lines unfilled, sometimes a new lunch box.  Back-to-school was my favorite time of year. I hated summer. I didn't particularly like to play kid's games, especially outside. I wanted to be left alone to read.

We moved every year (my father was in the military and that's what they did then) and the first place I would try to find in any house was some quiet corner to read. My very favorite was at the end of a long closet where there was a window. In front of it were some packing boxes just big enough and at just the right height for an 11-year-old girl to with a book and read and look out the window. Clothes were in front of the boxes, effectively shielding me from the outside world. Still, my mother would find me and make me go out and play. I was obedient, but I didn't like it. [Read more...]